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CASTING UPDATE: Misfires and Hires

It’s like picking season in K-drama land these days because every other day is another person being offered a role or confirmed for something. It’s kind of hard to keep track, so here’s a guide on what’s going on for upcoming shows in 2015!

Dr. Frankenstein

It’s supposed to start sometime in May after Unkind Women on KBS, but so far it only has the writer, Kim Tae Hee, attached.

Who Are You – School 2015

Allow me to say that I don’t really understand the title. Why can’t it just be School 2015 if it’s following the School franchise?

It’s looking at an April broadcast on KBS and hasn’t even started casting yet, so now it’s in a huge rush to find available actors. It will air after Blood and before Hello Monster.

Two new screenwriters who only have drama specials under their names will be jointly writing this series: Kim Hyun Jung and Kim Min Jung. The director will be Baek Sang Hoon (Secret – the one with Hwang Jung Eum and Ji Sung).

Jeju-do Gatsby

Kim Woo Bin and Kang Sora are still huge maybes to join the cast in the lead roles.

What has happened though is that the Hong Sisters have changed the title to “맨도롱 또똣”. I don’t know how to translate this really, but it’s supposed to mean “Good warm feelings” in the Jeju Island dialect. There’s probably a pun in here somewhere. I liked the original title better – more straightforward.

Sensory Couple

After all the talks of Yoochun being paired off with Suzy, Shin Se Kyung has taken over as the girl who can see smells. That’s hilarious considering in Blade Man she was the girl whom Lee Dong Wook couldn’t stop smelling.

Mask

Soo Ae and Joo Ji Hoon have been offered lead roles in this drama, but neither have yet confirmed.

Choi Ho Chul (Secret Love) will write and Bu Sung Chul(Heirs) will direct this May drama, which will follow Sensory Couple. It’s pretty much a melodrama about people who wear masks to hide their true selves, and how Soo Ae’s character somehow enters the world of chaebols.